Having spent this last summer in London, I'd say that I was jumping half to most of the red lights..
Sometimes it's after a good look, slacking off the speed, another good look and go..
Having said that, it includes rolling in front of the line for a head-start, going when the opposing light has gone red (after checking/clocking any car/bike RLJers!), turning left on a red when there's nobody coming and going when the peds have all cleared the crossing...
There's plenty of circumstances when it's not UNsafe to jump a red.. and when it is, then waiting is fine. Its not hard to do a trackstand, or adjust your speed and wait for the peds to finish crossing either.
It may be illegal, but I don't have pedal reflectors either!

Still havunt a clue what on Earth you're actually going on about, but then again, I suspect neither do you.

Now this is just pathetic! You said it now own up to it.

Fred up there got bitten by a dog and the owner offered him £10 if he didn't tell the police about it. The owner was elderly and would be left all on this own if the dog was put down. So Fred, being Fred, took the £10 and still reported him to the Police.

However, he decided to sneakily edit his post that said what's written above because he doesn't want people thinking he's a bad person. He got a criminal record from when he was younger but he's changed still the same.

Now I do actually know a bit about this; RLJing carries a maximum fixed penalty of thirty pounds, AKAIK. Assault ranges from Conditional Discharge to several years in jail, depending on the particular case and severity of the assault, if convicted.

Are red lights there to make us follow rules or keep us safe? I think it's the latter. Yeah, we can all jump the lights. It's easy, you don't have to be smart or brave, look around, nothing coming, it's perfectly safe, I'll just ride acros.....BANG!!!!!

The lights are there to protect you, as a vulnerable road user especially.

Obviously it's your choice, hope you do actually see *every* car that's coming. The stats for cyclist deaths in London suggest that some people get it wrong. But you guys won't will you?

Are red lights there to make us follow rules or keep us safe? I think it's the latter. Yeah, we can all jump the lights. It's easy, you don't have to be smart or brave, look around, nothing coming, it's perfectly safe, I'll just ride acros.....BANG!!!!!

they are actually there to stop cars causing gridlock. there are many lights its perfectly safe to go across on red - you know when you can see whats coming in each direction

I'd suggest that in built up areas there aren't many that give you much view onto the left hand side unless you're over the line.

There's one near us which is a T junction, with a mandatory cycle lane across the top part of the T. Run that red light and the only thing you should encounter is other cyclists doing a right turn out of the other part of the T. Of course, many of the zombie RLJs fail to look out even for that...

There's just one red light that I run, and it's one of those stupid traffic lights at the end of a bus lane to give the bus priority into the queue of traffic. Unfortunately, despite the signs saying that it's OK for bikes to use the bus lane, the traffic light can't be triggered by bikes, so if you stop, you'll be waiting for the next bus.